Did I miss something or I have to create and build a profile in the Broadcom support center just to download a free version of VMWare ?
The fuck ?

Red Hat did that to me with OpenJDK

You clearly have missed the news, VMware became the corporate bitch of hypervisors.
Openstack/cloudstack/proxmox or for the real masochists, pure libvirt/qemu is the way to go now.
Unless you want to give money to cloud providers...

@lorentz dont u mean oracle?

@Elendil nope :) the audacity amazes me still

This is nothing new.
To get the "free" product key for the ESX hypervisor, you needed to open an account, answer about 20 very personal questions, and sacrifice a goat.

@NeatNerdPrime how about xcp-ng?

@electrineer I had no idea this existed! Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
I am planning to migrate from the painstaking openstack setup (which I am not happy about) to something else. For now cloudstack seems to be my preferred choice but I need to dedicate time to investigate properly and that is a big luxury nowadays.

@lorentz Grab corretto?